Monday Monuments and Memorials – Remember Flanders, John McCrae, Guelph, ON

 

McCrae statue in front of Guelph Civic Museum

McCrae statue in his birthplace of Guelph, Ontario

Remember Flanders, Ruth Abernethy, 2015

John McCrae wrote In Flanders Field in May 1915, inspired by the death of his friend Alexis Helmer. The poem was first published in December 1915. Since then, the poem and its symbolic poppies have become iconic remembrances of sacrifice in war.